1957
A female radio reporter turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.
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Our brains are constantly, subtly being primed in fascinating ways by our physical surroundings.
Embracing difference is vital for our success as a species, but it places extra demands on the brain. Here’s how to get better at it.
Cutting-edge neuroscience shows that your brain isn’t built for thinking—it’s made to predict your reality, and you have more power over that perception than you might think.
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Neuroscientist Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett delves into the different ways we’re able to perceive the world that go beyond sight, sound, touch, taste and smell.
Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience—and not just any conscious experience, your experience of the world around you and of yourself within it.
The world we perceive comes as much from the inside-out, as from the outside-in.
Perception as the key to who we are
Even in the hardest of times, laughter has a steadfast ability to bring people together. A new study reveals how laughter affects the brain, which may help to explain why having a giggle plays such an important role in social bonding.
Psychosis is a highly misunderstood condition. In this talk, Paul illustrates the condition's complexity, taking apart how our brains perceive reality by reinventing illusions around us. If perception is just a form of controlled hallucination, what does that make hallucination?